Diddy crops Kendall and Kylie out of an Instagram picture and a meme is born

Published on 09 May 2017

Today, in post-Met Gala drama, Kylie Jenner shared a picture on Instagram of her and sister Kendall posing for a photo with Jaden Smith, Travis Scott, Wiz Khalifa, Diddy and Migos. The Jenner’s are flipping off the camera, everyone else is looking pretty respectful. Diddy, in a savage move, cropped the two out of the pic, resposted and tagged it #TeamLove and #BlackExcellence. LOL. Don’t you get the feeling they were always going to be cropped out of it? Just look at the composition.

The girls, who occupy varying degrees of importance in pop culture depending on who you ask (ask Pepsi for example), have been under criticism for profiting from black culture and an adoption of the black aesthetics since, well, since Kim was the only Kardashain in the public consciousness. This is not an isolated event either, Miley Cyrus, who recently criticised hip hop for being “too sexual” fails to recognise how her twerking and use of exclusively black back up dancers is what sustained her career, to dismiss it once it’s been milked for all its monetary and commercial value is inherently disrespectful and continues a narrative that black culture is purely a vehicle for white success in the entertainment industry.

In any case, the internet thought it was pretty funny, with the phrase “sometimes you just need to #diddycrop people out of your life” emerging as a mantra for the eradication of toxic influences. Check out the memes, fresh from twitter, below.